REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Ingenuity® Systems, a leading provider of information solutions for life science researchers, and Erasmus Medical Center, jointly announced a scientific collaboration using next-generation sequencing (NGS) for disease research.

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, May 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Erasmus MC (the medical centre of Rotterdam University) has awarded the contract for a new hospital complex to a joint venture by BAM Utiliteitsbouw and Ballast Nedam Bouw Special Projects. The turf cutting ceremony will be in autumn.

Ipsen and Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam have extended their alliance by concluding a collaboration agreement to identify and progress therapeutics within the fields of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism.

Dutch researchers found the fatality rate from sepsis -- blood poisoning -- and purpura -- bleeding underneath the skin -- in children and teens was 16 percent.

The private, non-profit Windber Research Institute (WRI) will work closely with Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam in a strategic partnership to jointly develop a translational medicine data warehousing solution for clinical, molecular (genomic and proteomic) and imaging data.